SNAKES.
I'm very skeptical about leaving a baby with a snake, the infant may get hurt or killed. If I see a snake
slithering around the neighborhood, I give a general alert to the people. Unless I corner and kill it myself the squatters living in the compound adjoining us will go all out after it until they catch it and it always ends up on their dinner table after being barbecued over an open fire. Talk about eating snakes or even lizards, I have never tried eating them myself but the Filipino people do it all the time.
Eating of dogs, cats, rats and mice, even wild birds, to these people they are a delicacy from time
immemorial which they are unable to give up. They also eat the bats whenever they catch one. Their
children go around the place with slingshots, they see these creatures of the wild either flying or
scattering around and they will fire their stones until they catch them before they take them home.
Lot of times the parents leave the children alone without any support at all, parents may go away for
a week or over the weekend leaving the children to fend for themselves. I see it happening all the time but nothing can be done about it. The way the things are going on the world markets, currencies
are losing value at an allarming rate, the government does nothing to help the people but only lines
its pockets with high taxation. In my opinion, governments of all countries should stop being greedly
and should help the people in the time of need. My wife has recently planted a patch of spinach in a
mixture of soil and buffalo manure and since we have had a lot of rain lately, the spinach is thriving
and at least we don't have to eat the dirty types of meat. I also have hot chili growing around the place because I love eating it. Lately, I have been snacking on coffee and biscuits all the time and it
sustains me. Hare Krishna for that, 17/10/2008.
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